I haven’t been on in a month now. But it’s weird, I had cleared cookies dozens of times, looking for links to streaming a show, as search engines are enshitified and no longer provide them, I found a reddit page a couple of times, it looked like I was logged in somehow, anyway a third time I came back to one of their pages, not having logged in, and set up so I had to type my username to log in, its not automatic, I checked and somehow I was logged in.
For a month? How did that happen? I closed and cleared cookies and checked back and it didn’t log me in automatically.
How could that possibly have happened? Is it hacked? Was it logged in for a month, despite clearing the cookies like every day?
In the bad old days where I was forced to make spyware in exchange for a white collar paycheque, we used to make things called “supercookies” that used basically any fingerprint, storage, glitches of a browser to store a token or otherwise identify you with or without identity
We had something like 98% confidence even if you had no cookies, based on just using JS to eyeball your browser and probing it.
Not saying its a “supercookie” but the internet is funny like that. The current bleeding edge of it seems to be abusing favicon caches
I’m trying to ween myself off reddit.
I haven’t been on in a month now. But it’s weird, I had cleared cookies dozens of times, looking for links to streaming a show, as search engines are enshitified and no longer provide them, I found a reddit page a couple of times, it looked like I was logged in somehow, anyway a third time I came back to one of their pages, not having logged in, and set up so I had to type my username to log in, its not automatic, I checked and somehow I was logged in.
For a month? How did that happen? I closed and cleared cookies and checked back and it didn’t log me in automatically.
How could that possibly have happened? Is it hacked? Was it logged in for a month, despite clearing the cookies like every day?
In the bad old days where I was forced to make spyware in exchange for a white collar paycheque, we used to make things called “supercookies” that used basically any fingerprint, storage, glitches of a browser to store a token or otherwise identify you with or without identity
We had something like 98% confidence even if you had no cookies, based on just using JS to eyeball your browser and probing it.
Not saying its a “supercookie” but the internet is funny like that. The current bleeding edge of it seems to be abusing favicon caches